Welcome to 2025!  People everywhere are beginning the new year thinking about the future and how we can live our lives to the fullest. Courtney Lynch at Lead Star (Leadership Development Coaching | Lead Star) recently shared a wonderful tool to help each of us make the most of this process, and now I’m sharing it with you.  Here is what Courtney wrote:

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YearCompass is a free booklet that helps you reflect on the year and plan the next one. With a set of carefully selected questions and exercises, YearCompass helps you uncover your own patterns and intentionally envision the year ahead. You can download a free copy of YearCompass here.

YearCompass is also a global movement. More than a million people have completed the booklet. It’s a powerful way to fully look back on your year, learn from your mistakes, celebrate your victories, and intentionally frame 2025.

Effective leaders are committed to self-reflection. The quiet of year-end and the freshness of a new year offer the opportunity to take stock, process, and apply learnings forward. One of the best gifts you can give yourself is time. Time to look at how far you’ve come and time to dream and design what you’d value moving toward.[i]

Even if you do not formally complete the YearCompass exercise, just reading through the questions prompts valuable reflections on the past and the generation of thoughts about where you want to go in the future.  And remember, resolutions are fine, but you need follow up and take actions that make them real in your daily life.

Here’s wishing everyone a safe, prosperous, and joyful year ahead!

[i] Looking Back, Envisioning Forward – Lead Star

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Published by Norman Meyer

After 38 years as a trial court administrator in the state and federal courts in the U.S., Norman continues to write, teach, and otherwise participate in judicial administration activities world-wide. In particular, he is active in the International Association for Court Administration (IACA) as a past Regional Vice President and Advisory Board member, in the National Association for Court Management (NACM) as a Past President (having received NACM's Award of Merit), and as an Associate of the Justice Speakers Institute. Norman has extensive experience working on international Rule of Law projects, particularly in the Russian Federation, Serbia, Ukraine, Moldova, and Albania. Norman is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of New Mexico (Political Science and Russian Studies), and he received the Master of Science in Judicial Administration from the University of Denver College of Law.

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